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The art of flying (short version)

24 November 2017   0

  The flight of a starling flock at dusk, know…

Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous

1 November 2017   0

From all sides, the message is coming in: the world…

Pigeon kings of Brooklyn

30 June 2017   0

A tour of the Brooklyn rooftops where man’s best friend…

Dissolving the ego

26 June 2017   0

  In 1969, the British writer Philip Pullman was walking…

The bloodstained leveller

19 June 2017   0

ift.tt/2rMLddY Blame inequality on climate change. Until the end of…

What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life

15 November 2016   0

—- What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and…

Laws or comets?

3 November 2016   0

ift.tt/2fyfVGT When one looks at the long sweep of Big…

Buck to the Future: Why the High-Tech Ideas of Buckminster Fuller Are Back In Vogue | Aeon | Oct. 25, 2016 | 12 Minutes (3,049 words)

1 November 2016   0

ift.tt/2dRNKQn The old mill town of Winooski in Vermont gets…

The second sage

31 October 2016   0

ift.tt/2eLAqxX A man is hiking in the countryside when he…

The end of adolescence

26 October 2016   0

ift.tt/2ff0oLl Adolescence as an idea and as an experience grew…